One of the folx down the road is a tRUMP supporter. In fact, there’s many of them in the county in which we live. The one I’m writing about however, has a sign in from of his house that claims: “Gun owners for Trump!,” or words to that effect. Maybe I’ll try to take a picture the next time I drive past if the sign is still there. Since the candidate was grazed by a bullet yesterday, and several folx are dead and others critically wounded according to the news, I wonder if the Trumpster MAGAt has a sense of irony. Even more, I wonder if the candidate does, but suspect not.
will we be the phoenix or the ash pile of democracy?
Photo by J. Harrington
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Those of you who read this with any regularity have probably noticed I’ve ben on a kick lately, citing old sayings and quotations. The current opportunity offers too much to pass by. Heres a few that come to mind:
- Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas
- Known by the company you keep
- Give as good as you get (or vice versa)
- What goes around, comes around (or vice versa)
- and the ever infamous Live by the sword, ...
If I left out any you think belong on the list, please note them in the comments.
Last nights thunderstorms awakened my dog and made her quite anxious, so of course she looked to me for reassurance at about 12:45 am. I gave here a couple anxiety calming treats and had her lie down while I rubbed under her chin. (She doesn’t like me to pet the top of her head.) After a while, the rain, lightning and thunder faded away and SiSi and I faded back to sleep. I figure SiSi’s about as likely to grow out of thunderstorm anxiety as most politicians are likely to grow into authenticity, integrity and transparency. Both of which are more likely to occur than for me to get to vote for the candidate [AOC] I’d really like to see as POTUS so I’ll just try to make the most of the world I’ve got to live in. Good luck to US all. We’ll need it if we continue to act as though we’ll settle any more by a next civil war than we did by the last one.
America
Then one of the students with blue hair and a tongue studSays that America is for him a maximum-security prisonWhose walls are made of RadioShacks and Burger Kings, and MTV episodesWhere you can’t tell the show from the commercials,And as I consider how to express how full of shit I think he is,He says that even when he’s driving to the mall in his IsuzuTrooper with a gang of his friends, letting rap music pour over themLike a boiling Jacuzzi full of ballpeen hammers, even then he feelsBuried alive, captured and suffocated in the foldsOf the thick satin quilt of AmericaAnd I wonder if this is a legitimate category of pain,or whether he is just spin doctoring a better grade,And then I remember that when I stabbed my father in the dream last night,It was not blood but moneyThat gushed out of him, bright green hundred-dollar billsSpilling from his wounds, and—this is the weird part—,He gasped “Thank god—those Ben Franklins wereClogging up my heart—And so I perish happily,Freed from that which kept me from my liberty”—Which was when I knew it was a dream, since my dadWould never speak in rhymed couplets,And I look at the student with his acne and cell phone and phony ghetto clothesAnd I think, “I am asleep in America too,And I don’t know how to wake myself either,”And I remember what Marx said near the end of his life:“I was listening to the cries of the past,When I should have been listening to the cries of the future.”But how could he have imagined 100 channels of 24-hour cableOr what kind of nightmare it might beWhen each day you watch rivers of bright merchandise run past youAnd you are floating in your pleasure boat upon this riverEven while others are drowning underneath youAnd you see their faces twisting in the surface of the watersAnd yet it seems to be your own handWhich turns the volume higher?
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